Real Estate Strategies Group

The Kaufman & Canoles Real Estate Strategies Group is known for providing comprehensive representation to its real estate clients. Our goal is to make transactions happen while helping to manage the risks. We use legal expertise and business insights to help you make more informed and balanced decisions no matter how complex the transaction.

Our practice group is composed of attorneys and other professionals who focus on transactional, development and land use matters as well as attorneys who focus on specialized related areas such as environmental law and tax planning. In many instances our attorneys work closely with members of our Public Finance Practice Group in structuring and implementing public/private partnerships.

Our group members possess a wealth of talent and experience and have a proven track record in handling a wide variety of both routine and complex real estate matters. Our group members pride themselves on providing counsel that goes beyond the completion of assigned legal tasks and adds value to our clients’ projects.

Represent a non-profit health care entity in its land assemblage, development planning and environmental, archaeological, historical, and transportation analysis, permitting and approvals for a multi-jurisdictional mixed-use project in the Williamsburg, Virginia area

Represented a developer in the due diligence, environmental permitting, transportation permitting, Community Development Authority approval, financing, and acquisition of land for the development of a regional lifestyle (retail) center

Represented the owner of a medical facility in an eminent domain case filed by VDOT

Represented a land purchaser in the conception and implementation of a Brownfields development strategy for a waterfront mixed-use project formerly the site of a hazardous waste generator regulated by the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act

Represented a developer in all aspects of the acquisition, financing, and preparing condominium documents for a high-rise mixed-use (retail, office and residential) project in downtown Norfolk, including the sale of a portion of the developed project to a state agency

Represented developer to establish vested property rights in non-conforming use of property and through all appeal levels, including the Virginia Supreme Court, against an adjacent property owner’s challenge to the client’s favorable land use determination

Represented a non-profit foundation in connection with development of hotel, commercial buildings, research and development facilities and a residential village

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Although we encourage you to contact us if you have a legal matter requiring attention, any information you communicate to us by e-mail will not be assumed of confidential treatment until we agree that there is an attorney-client relationship between us. Nor will any communication between us establish such a relationship, unless and until we specially agree to serve as your attorneys, which we will not be able to do if you communicate with us by e-mail in connection with a matter for which we already represent you. You should be aware that the security of Internet e-mail is uncertain. By sending confidential or sensitive e-mail messages which are not encrypted you accept the risks of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet.